Publications

Training against Hate Crimes for Law Enforcement (TAHCLE) is a programme designed to improve police skills in recognizing, understanding and investigating hate crimes. Implementation of the programme should improve police skills in preventing and responding to hate crimes, interacting effectively with victim communities, and building public confidence and co-operation with law-enforcement agencies.

A set of OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Guidelines on integration of diverse societies.

The handbook’s purpose is to help prospective and acting judges in enhancing their legal opinion writing skills. It focuses on practical issues, includes exercises and provides examples of real court decisions, numerous recommendations based on the experience of foreign countries, European in particular. Trainers and teachers can find it instrumental in developing and conducting training sessions on court decision writing. This handbook is not available in English.

These handout materials were produced for distribution at the series of seminars for judges of Ukrainian administrative courts on application of practice of European Court of Human Rights in national justice. The events were organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, EU Twinning Project “Improving efficiency and quality of management of administrative justice of Ukraine”, High Administrative Court of Ukraine and Natuional School of Judges. Materials are not available in English.

ODIHR's annual report provides an overview of the Office's primary activities in the areas of elections, human rights, democratization, tolerance and non-discrimination, and Roma and Sinti issues.

The 2013 Social Media Guidebook explores the potential and the challenges of social media and the right to freedom of expression as new media develop. The authors address contemporary issues affecting journalism and media in general. For journalists, consultants, regulatory officials and undergraduate and graduate students.

This guidebook tackles the issue of media self-regulation in the digital world. It is an effort to show the need for ethical standards in the Internet era and illustrate with specific examples how self-regulation mechanisms can protect media freedom in the digital age.

This study provides an overview of the practical measures OSCE participating States can take to promote ethical behaviour among politicians.

This report is a result of monitoring and content analysis held by public foundation Media Consult, with the support of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek.

The 10th issue of the e-newsletter issued by the Gender Section of the OSCE on a quarterly basis.